roadhouse

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

From road + house.

"But we will keep a roadhouse if we go there," said Alma, "and be making some money. — A Woman who went to Alaska, May Kellogg Sullivan
In storms of this kind men have lain in their sleeping-bags for days within a stone's-throw of a roadhouse or village. — The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure, Rex Beach
A mile ahead I came to a tumbledown roadhouse, with quite a crowd of loud-voiced men standing around, who evidently had been indulging in the fiery aguardiente sold there. — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell

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